Hotels on Temple Street: What Is Actually Licensed at Each Address

Three hotels are licensed at Temple Street addresses — King's at 46–54, WE Hotel Kowloon at 3, and LINKo Residence@Jordan at 129 — and the street's four other licensed premises are guesthouses, one floor each, at 230–236 and 253–255. Two nights behind a front desk: King's or WE. A month in a serviced flat: LINKo. The cheapest licensed bed, if you are happy to ring: the guesthouses. Each holds a licence number, and that number is the only public proof the place is licensed.

Every licensed address on the street

The census as the Office of the Licensing Authority prints it, searched by address, by name and by licence number on 11 November 2026 and cross-checked against all 1,803 rows of its bulk download. Seven premises hold a licence on Temple Street, in street-number order. Rooms are the licensed capacity, not the number on sale tonight.

King's Hotel, 46–54: the ordinary hotel

王子酒店 King's Hotel holds hotel licence H/5516 at 46–54 Temple Street, licensed for 98 rooms, with the front desk and the lift the guesthouses will not give you. Its own site gives 廟街50號 — 50 Temple Street, the same block — and the telephone 3701 0888; the site itself is kingshotelhk.com, and it answers over plain http only.

It is not a leafy address: FEHD's licensed pitch area begins at Kansu Street and runs south, so the stalls start 322 m from this door, measured on foot. King's publishes no rate of its own, so ring for a direct price before you accept an agency's.

WE Hotel Kowloon, 3: the hotel that gets misfiled

伯惠酒店九龍 WE Hotel Kowloon holds H/6608 at 3 Temple Street — ground floor to the 16th, plus roof, top-roof and upper-top-roof floors — licensed for 48 rooms, telephone 3978 6900, own site wehotel.hk. The register types it a Hotel: a whole building with a hotel licence is not a hostel with a hotel name, so where a listing calls this one a guesthouse, the register is the source to believe.

Its rooms page lists room types and shows no rate, so there is no price to compare until you ask.

LINKo Residence@Jordan, 129: the one sold by the month

零距府邸．佐敦 LINKo Residence@Jordan is the whole building at 129 Temple Street: H/6462 covers the ground floor to the 3rd, the 5th to the 13th, the 15th to the 19th and the roof, for 37 rooms. Eighteen storeys, marketed with "premium hotel-like services" — the operator's phrase, not a licence type. Telephone 5988 5465, email [email protected], operator page linko-living.com.

It is the only one of the three not sold by the night. The operator quotes "From HK$9,900 up per month + Management Fee + 3% Hotel Accommodation Tax", and puts the management fee at HK$680 per month for weekly room cleaning, a 24-hour concierge, maintenance, security and lift and fire services. A monthly basis, with a fee and a tax on top.

Do not divide HK$9,900 by thirty and call it a room rate: nothing on the operator's page describes a nightly let. Ask about the minimum stay and short bookings before you plan around this address.

The four licensed guesthouses at street addresses

The other four licensed premises are guesthouses, every one a single floor: 永興賓館 Wing Hing Hostel (H/0109, 4/F, 230–236, 5 rooms), 韶興賓館 Siu Hing Hostel (H/1218, 4/F, 230–236, 9 rooms), 新豪華賓館 New Ho Wah Villa (H/1102, 4/F, 253–255, 5 rooms) and 益雅旅館 Yat Ah Guest House (H/2539, 8/F, 253–255, 5 rooms).

The register publishes a telephone for three — 2770 9798 for both licences at 230–236, 2712 3108 for New Ho Wah — none for Yat Ah, and no price for any. The telephone is the whole of what is known: ring, ask what a night costs, and ask for the floor the licence names. For the twelve licensed guesthouses around the market, see where to stay near Temple Street.

Seven addresses, three decisions:

What a licence number tells you, and what it does not

Premises held out as providing sleeping accommodation to anyone who turns up and pays a fee need a licence under the Hotel and Guesthouse Accommodation Ordinance (Cap. 349), unless every letting runs for at least 28 continuous days with no refund or reduced fee for a shorter stay. The register is published by the Office of the Licensing Authority. Its full display gives the licence number, name, type, address, district, licence period, licensed room count and contact details, and no field for a star rating, an inspection grade, a room rate or guest reviews.

The line between the types is a building test, not a comfort test: a hotel licence is for premises approved or accepted by the Building Authority for hotel use; a guesthouse licence for premises in a domestic building or its domestic part. The licence attests approval for hotel use and the Authority's building and fire-safety suitability requirement, examined again at renewal.

The register proves a licence is held, not that rooms are on sale tonight. A licence number also outlives the name on it: H/6462 at 129 was registered to a premises called PARIS HOTEL in a snapshot of the register taken in October 2019. A name missing from the register is not licensed today, whatever a booking site sells.

If you found an "A3 Hotel" listing

The premises at 129 Temple Street traded as A3 Hotel in 2018–19, and its domain was for sale by 28 November 2021. No premises named A3 appears in the 1,803-row register, and no row carries that former site's telephone number. A listing still selling a night there sells something the register does not show.

Getting to the door

Temple Street between Jordan Road and Kansu Street is a part-time pedestrian street: no vehicles from 2:00 PM to midnight, daily, since July 2002. Of the three hotels, only 129 sits inside it, so from 2:00 PM you walk in from either end. WE Hotel at 3 and King's at 46–54 are north of Kansu Street, outside it, so a vehicle can reach both. The guesthouse blocks sit at the Jordan Road end, 230–236 just inside, 253–255 just beyond.

FEHD's licensed pitch area runs from Kansu Street south to Nanking Street. Measured on foot, its Kansu Street end is 322 m from King's door and 317 m from WE Hotel's; 129 is the one hotel whose address falls between Kansu Street and Nanking Street, with the licensed pitches on the same section. Licensed hawker trading ends at 11:00 PM, and the 2:00 PM opening is a licensing time, not a traffic one. MTR exits and last trains are on our directions page; the street map shows where each block sits.

If "near" is fine and "on" was not the point

Being on the street is not the same as being near it, and for most trips near is the better answer: a front desk, a taxi that can reach the door at any hour. Where to stay near Temple Street Night Market carries the full tiered list with walking times. No hotel on the street is a five-star one — luxury hotels near Temple Street covers what is close and how far it really is. For the harbour side, start with hotels in Hong Kong.